Paint Sprayer Fiasco

Wow! We have a lot of catching up to do over here at Our Old Colonial. We were busy bumble bees this weekend and I can certainly feel it this Monday morning. But before we get to that, let's catch up on some house work!

A few weeks ago on a Wednesday, the plan was to simply start taping the house to get it ready for painting [with a paint sprayer] on Friday night. How long could this possibly take? That would give us plenty of time to get some gardening done too, right?

Well, let me tell you about it:

Wednesday night I taped a total of 2... yes 2 windows.



That only left 5 rooms to go... with a total of 8 windows with 16 window panes in each... but who is counting? I am! That is 128 window panes left and only 32 down....

Skip to Saturday afternoon [or 3 nights and 3/4 of a day of taping later] and we are still taping up and finishing covering all the furniture for the paint sprayer.

So, I was going to just lay this out for you real plane and simple: Don’t rent a paint sprayer or rather, Don’t rent a paint sprayer expecting to get the same result in a shorter amount of time.

But then I realized that you all out there might have better luck than we did with the paint sprayer and looking back on it now we may have had the wrong tools, but wow were we disappointed with the whole process!

Matt and I were so excited to paint all of our molding in a matter of minutes after watching several paint spraying videos on YouTube [just take a quick search over on google for: how to paint spray video].

But, after spending countless hours sealing up the house, we were already exhausted by the time we actually got the paint sprayer [this is a very important time consuming process they don't show in those stinking videos]. So, we were exhausted and then we started spraying...

We rented a paint sprayer:



And while I finished up with covering furniture and trying to stay awake, Matt started spraying.

We started in the office, because we were going to paint all of the paneling over and had taken out the carpet (so how could we mess this up right?).


[Remember the lovely office?]

Well, Matt started spraying and it looked GREAT! It covered the panelling right up!


[Wow! This is wonderful!]

Then we waited a few minutes and the walls began to melt. We had put too much paint on and should have been spraying a much lighter mist. But, it was too late. We were cranky and exhausted and didn't know what to do. So, as of now, we have the most beautifully textured walls in our office. I have since covered some of the worst spots with pictures, but we may be tearing down the panelling altogether in the near future. *sigh* At least it is the cheap plastic kind and I won't feel guilty about it, but that certainly adds another project to the already never ending list!